Originally Posted by
Free Bird
Not sure by what you mean about "as long as they hit 48.5 once". The way it is set up now (the settlement), the company has to maintain a minimum of 48.5% of EASKs every year. Since 2010 the company has not been in compliance once.
Furthermore, the language states the new "minimum" is an AVERAGE of 46.5%. This means we went from a minimum of 48.5% to an Average of 46.5%.
We can throw out numbers all day long; essentially, the company was out of compliance for 6 years and we just gifted them into compliance.
With this new contract we are:
- Allowing the company to do less Atlantic flying than they are currently doing.
- If the company goes below 48.5% EASK then it triggers a global protection that is contractually 5% less International flying than we are doing today.
If the company flat out did not respect our "Floor" over the Atlantic, why would they respect our new global "Floor"?
I would have more faith in the Block hour floor if we would of added Non-Compliance language. Unfortunately, DALPA didn't learn their lesson from 6 years of the company breaking our contract.
How the Scope section is being labeled a win in beyond me. It clearly allows the company to fly fewer international flights.
They who would give up essential scope for temporary pay, deserve neither pay nor scope.
Shall we expect some transatlantic airline giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the airlines of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their company chest; with a Spohr for CEO, could not by force, take a flight to Ohio, or lay a contrail across the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.